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The Siren and the Seashell

And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry

By Octavio Paz; Translated by Lysander Kemp and Margaret Sayers Peden; Illustrated by Barry Moser
University of Texas Press

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

By Horacio Quiroga; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden; Introduction by George D. Schade
University of Texas Press

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.

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Urban Latin America

The Political Condition from Above and Below

University of Texas Press

This book is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem.

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Under the Rainbow

Nature and Supernature among the Panare Indians

University of Texas Press

This ethnographic study of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is the first extensive look at a tribe of this region of the Amazonia.

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The Yanoama Indians

A Cultural Geography

University of Texas Press

This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.

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Fields of the Tzotzil

The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas

University of Texas Press

The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.

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Dramatists in Revolt

The New Latin American Theater

University of Texas Press

Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.

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The Spanish American Novel

A Twentieth-Century Survey

University of Texas Press

John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.

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A Mexican Family Empire

The Latifundio of the Sánchez Navarro Family, 1765-1867

University of Texas Press

A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America—the latifundio of the Sánchez Navarros.

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Psychology of the Mexican

Culture and Personality

University of Texas Press

In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology.

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Viva Cristo Rey!

The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico

University of Texas Press

This book depicts a national calamity in which sincere people followed their convictions to often tragic ends.

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The Artist in New York

Letters to Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929.

University of Texas Press

The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life.

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San José de Gracia

Mexican Village in Transition

By Luis González; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press

The history of a small town in Mexico.

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Mexican Revolution

Genesis under Madero

University of Texas Press

A history of the early years of the Mexican Revolution.

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The Bow and the Lyre

The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History

By Octavio Paz; Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
University of Texas Press

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

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Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas

University of Texas Press

How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.

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The Black-Man of Zinacantan

A Central American Legend

University of Texas Press

Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women.

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Mexico in Its Novel

A Nation's Search for Identity

University of Texas Press

A perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel.

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Mexican Revolution

The Constitutionalist Years

University of Texas Press

A study of Mexico during 1913-1920.

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Family Ties

University of Texas Press

Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer’s most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.

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